Guest host Pastor Jake Schnoor spoke with Robey and Abby Reddin this week about meeting Christ, meeting each other, and making their way to Guam.
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Chris Harper: Welcome to Harvest Time. My name is Chris Harper, and our host on this program, our guest host this week is Pastor Jake Schnoor. And every week on this program, we spend these twenty five minutes together telling you the stories of our church by interviewing our members and other friends of the ministry. We have two services at Harvest every week, the first at 08:45AM, the second at 10:45AM on Sunday. We have Japanese and Korean translation during that 10:45AM service, and that’s also the service we livestream at hbcgua.org.
Hbcguam.org. This week, Pastor Jake Schnoor will be preaching on Principles of Motherhood from one Samuel one. And let’s begin today’s Harvest Time by welcoming our guest host, Pastor Jake Schnoor. Hi, Pastor Jake.
Jake Schnoor: Well, hafa adai, Chris. Thanks for having me again. And yeah, I just want to encourage everyone listening to come out to Harvest this weekend. Again, times are 08:45 and 10:45. And we want to spend some time, obviously, digging into the word of God, but specifically, we want to honor godly mothers.
And we’re gonna be looking at a case study in Hannah, who was the mother of Samuel, who was powerfully used by God. And we’re gonna just see a little bit of some of the hardships that she went through, and how God used those to shape her into really one of the greatest examples of a godly mother in all the Bible in my estimation. So I’m very excited to look at that, with the church body, and so please come out if you can. But, today’s focus is not gonna be on me, it’s gonna be on our our guests, which is Robey and Abby Reddin. So welcome, guys.
Robey Reddin: Thank you. Appreciate it.
Abby Reddin: Thanks for having us.
Jake Schnoor: Yeah. Thanks for coming out and really just spending some time talking a little bit about your stories. No pressure. You don’t have to make up anything. In fact, the the greatest, part about this is we just really get to know you guys.
And let’s start with, how you came to Guam, how long you guys have been here, and then I actually want to rewind from there and go back to the beginning, tell a little bit about your families, and then how you guys came to know the Lord. But share the listeners a little bit of how long you’ve been on Guam, and what brought you here.
Robey Reddin: Sure, absolutely. So I’m active duty Air Force, and I’m a paramedic by trade in that, and so I got on island March 2025, and really have been plugged in
with Harvest shortly thereafter. I think I was trying to get either a vehicle situated or something figured out to be able to go to church. And then once I was able to do that, it was about a month after that, I’ve been plugged in with Harvest. And once I walked in through the doors, met everybody here at the welcome desk and at the front door, they just greeted me with open arms. They really acknowledged me being here and I was like, yep, this is this is the place where, I need to be.
Jake Schnoor: That’s awesome.
Yeah. And Abby, obviously, you came a little bit later.
Abby Reddin: Yeah. So, I came we got married in June. He flew back to Wyoming where I’m from. We got married. Mhmm.
And then July 1, I think, is when I first stepped foot on Guam.
Jake Schnoor: Okay.
Abby Reddin: went to Harvest and, yeah, both loved it. So that’s kind of how long we’ve been on Guam.
Jake Schnoor: Yeah. And was it similar to the churches that you grew up in, vastly different? Was it a natural fit for you guys right away?
Robey Reddin: Definitely. So, I grew up in a Baptist Church background or evangelical background.
I’ve been in the I grew up in the church pretty much my whole life, and I accepted Christ when I was about seven years old, and remember sitting in service and hearing the pastor talk about how us, we as sinners, we’re separated from God in that. I was like, just in my seven year old mind, I’m like, well, that means I’m completely separated from God. Like, what do I do? I felt just this weight of that separation. And so my parents were able to help me lead through the Gospel presentation and exactly what that means to commit yourself to Christ.
Jake Schnoor: Okay. Okay, yeah. So, you mentioned you were seven? About seven, yeah. Wow, okay.
What was the church that you were going to at the time?
Robey Reddin: It was Bethel Church in North Platte, Nebraska was where I
Jake Schnoor: Okay, very nice. Yeah, we know some people in Nebraska. Then your parents walked you through. Correct. Okay.
And then, what were some things over the next couple of years that you look back on, you say that was like, that’s how I know it was real, because these things started to change, or these things were they started happening and they just weren’t really happening before.
Robey Reddin: Oh, for sure. The actual next day, I was hanging out with some of my friends that we were friends and our parents were kind of friends altogether. And I just remember reaching out to them and just asked them like, Hey, have you guys accepted Jesus? Because I had this freedom from And I was talking with them about my experience and sharing with them, they’re like, oh, that’s cool. I never really thought about that.
And so I remember really following up with them on it, but I remember that was kind of my first gospel encounter. I was like, hey, let me share with you what I experienced.
Jake Schnoor: Sure. Yeah. I was just teaching through New Testament men at our college here on campus, and I mean, there’s a couple of disciples where it says the first thing they did was to go find someone. Andrew comes to mind. It says the first thing that he did after Jesus found him is he found Peter, his brother. And it’s just like, man, that ought to be one of the first things that changes, is we start to once you have the question of what happens to me when I die, then it’s like, well, now I’m If I have that settled, and I know what eternity holds, what about the people around me?
Robey Reddin: Exactly.
Jake Schnoor: Yeah, that’s good.
And then, Abby, share a little bit about the church that you Like, the first church you remember going to, and then when do you remember making a personal commitment for Christ to be your savior?
Abby Reddin: Yeah. The first church I went to was it’s called the Little White Church, and it’s in Hill City, South Dakota. And I remember going there, and just the pastor like looked like my dad. And I remember like mistaking him for my dad when I was like three, because they had the same pair of cowboy boots, same pair of like Wrangler jeans. I was like, went to grab him like all the little kids did.
I was like, Oh, you are not my father. No. Where’s my dad? And that’s like a distinct memory I have from that church and like Sunday school. Like, my parents were very involved.
And I remember first grade, they would give you a story Bible. Was called the adventure Bible. When you got to first grade, they’d give that to you. And I wanted that so bad. I was like, that was my goal.
And my parents, my dad specifically, explained to me what the Gospel was and why that Bible was so important. And I remember we were sitting on our couch in our living room, and I made that decision that I wanted Christ in my heart and I wanted to accept Him as my Savior. And I was like, I was like five. I wasn’t even in first grade yet. My goal was that, like, Bible and what that meant.
Jake Schnoor: Yeah.
Abby Reddin: And that was just a really neat experience for me to, like, have that with my dad. And then this past two years ago, a year ago, I found, like, a letter that my dad had written that night to me. What? And it was just explaining, like, Abby, I know this is real for you. Like, I know you’re probably not gonna remember all the details, but you prayed that prayer and accepted Christ into your heart.
And I saw that change in you that night. Wow. And so that really confirmed it for me because as a five year old, your memory is, like, not super great. But to have that confirmation from my dad of like, no, you changed.
Jake Schnoor: Sure.
Abby Reddin: And here’s how that yeah. It was really, really a neat experience.
Jake Schnoor: That’s good. That’s good. I mean, and since you brought up a little bit about the idea of kind of assurance, Assurance is different than salvation, right? Salvation is a moment, and it is an unchangeable reality that you are it’s where you get spiritual life. It’s when Holy Spirit enters into someone after they’re forgiven of their sins, and the Holy Spirit can’t dwell in someone that’s that has sinned.
So they have to have their sins forgiven and removed, and that’s when we’re justified. But then assurance is different. Often, when I hear people who get saved at a younger age, there’s a lot of ups and downs with assurance. That may not be the case for you guys, but maybe just really briefly, were there any moments in your life where you doubted? Is it real between you and God?
If you were to die today, do you know for sure? Or was it more from that moment, it’s God just gave you peace, and God gave you that comfort that you are His.
Robey Reddin: I think for me, I had probably a little bit of an instance like that about my freshman sophomore year of high school. Interesting. Because I was, because when you’re that- like what you said, when you’re that young, you don’t really have a life prior to because you’re so young and there’s really no like- Comparison. Adult comparison, like, conversion. So, you get to that certain age where you’re like, Well, am I doing everything right?
Am I meeting the standard? You kind of start putting yourself on that legalistic, like, Am I checking all the boxes and not relying on the grace and the forgiveness that Jesus offers to you? Yeah, that’s good. So I think I hit that about, yeah, my sophomore or my freshman sophomore year of high school, and then our youth pastor really helped us, Catmore helped me walk through that of you don’t need that. You need to continually live out the gospel and what the Gospel represents every day and remember that you are being sanctified every day.
Sure. You’re not going be perfect. There’s going be times when you stumble and fall, but I think in what he was relaying is that, yeah, you need to continue to live out the Gospel and its message.
Jake Schnoor: Sure. And you need to live it out, not to keep salvation, Oh, exactly, yeah. I know there’s listeners who probably are in that boat that you’re describing, where they think that it’s real. They believe that Jesus is their savior, but there it’s a slippery slope from saying, that I need to live out my salvation to be sanctified, to stay close with God, versus if you don’t, then you can lose it all, and forfeit everything. Yeah, I just met a number of people, especially who are really wrestling with Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, which is growing in popularity.
That’s a total side note. But even among young adults in the twenties and thirties, it is really growing. But Abby, would you say anything similar, or any seasons of lack of assurance and what allowed you to have that confidence with your walk with God?
Abby Reddin: For sure. I think I remember specifically when I was 12 and I was camping out in Nebraska and just like crying because I was like, I’m not going to heaven. Like, I was five. Like, was that real? Like, I’ve done such bad things since that point.
Like, how how could Christ forgive those things? And I remember talking with my mom and she was like, Abby, when Jesus died on the cross for your sins, it was for all your sins.
Jake Schnoor: There you go.
Abby Reddin: Past, present, future. Like, you’re never gonna do something that’s gonna make him stop loving you. Yeah. Like, that doesn’t that’s not how this works at all. And just really showed me, like, verses in John about, like, the assurance we have in Christ and that, like, it’s not something that can be taken away by yourself or Jesus isn’t going to take that away from you either.
Jake Schnoor: That’s so good.
Abby Reddin: And so it was like so like, settled in my mind that I was saved. And I think part of it is like, was that it’s not an emotional experience that you experience and you’re like, oh, well, I’m saved because I felt all the emotions. Especially as a girl. That’s not how it works. Like, it’s not it.
But it was like, because at camp, you have like the soul wrenching music and the like call to the altar and you’re like, am I really saved? Do I need to go up to just make sure?
Jake Schnoor: Right.
Abby Reddin: And it was like, no. Like, I was saved when I was five years old, and I’m saved for all of eternity. Like, some emotional experience isn’t gonna save me again when you’re already saved. Like, it’s not how this works. And so, I think that was kind of my thing.
And the assurance that I’ve given other people has been, once you’re saved, you can’t lose that, God’s not gonna lose you. Mhmm. And there’s nothing like, His love is gonna You’re not gonna lose His love for you either. I think that that forgiveness, past, present, and future for your sins, is always there.
Jake Schnoor: Yes. No, and mean, and then we can move on to our next topic. But just for any listeners who are in that position, I myself was there. I got saved in the eighth grade, transitioning from middle school to high school, went to summer camp, and there was a guy from Philadelphia named Preacher Steve, and he just shared the I don’t remember anything about the message other than, oh, yeah, I’ve heard this before. This is Jesus.
This is the gospel. I would have used that word. I know I’m a sinner. I know that, that separates me from God. I know that God is holy.
I can’t be with him unless I’m made holy. And I believe that Jesus is the one, but there was that moment where, is it mine? Like, is it real? Do I just know these things? And so that’s when I placed my faith and trust in Christ.
But then it was all of high school where I was up and down. I would be totally on fire, totally confident that I’m a believer, and then there’d be moments where I’m like, I don’t think it’s real at all. And the biggest thing that was a hindrance to me was actually a significant struggle I had with some sin, and I definitely don’t mind talking about it at all. But there’s a passage that really helps describe what I was going through, because I wasn’t letting go of certain sin. Let me just read first second Peter chapter one verses five to nine.
It says, for this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith, meaning add to your faith. Not necessary make every effort to get saved again, but if you have faith, add to it. Virtue and and virtue with knowledge, knowledge, self control, self control steadfastness, steadfastness steadfastness with godliness, godliness with brotherly affection, brotherly affection with love. So you add to your faith all these things. And verse eight, if these things are yours, all those things, self control, godliness, love, if they’re yours and increasing, they keep you from being ineffective and unfruitful.
Verse nine, here’s here’s the the clincher. Whoever lacks those things so if you’re a believer, you have faith in Jesus, but you lack self control. That’s the scene that I was in. You you can be nearsighted that you can become blind, having forgotten that you are cleansed from your former sins. Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling, or make your calling sure.
Literally, it’s saying, if you don’t deal with sin, or you don’t grow, that’s if you add all those things up, it’s talking about growing spiritually. And if you don’t do those things, then you might struggle, and you’re gonna doubt your calling, and you have to make it sure. So again, if you’re listening, and that resonates with you, we’d love to help you out, and give you some encouragement. But for the sake of time, let’s transition to not just how God got ahold of you guys, but how did God bring you two together?
Robey Reddin: Yeah. So it’s kind of kind of a funny story. So we met actually back in 2019. So and we had a mutual friend that Abby grew up with that we were kind of relatively close to in Nebraska. And they my brother my little brother and I, we were planning to go out to Wyoming to go snowboarding.
And our mutual friend was like, hey, I know this family, the Brumbaugh’s, and they might be able to let us stay with them so that we don’t have to get a, like a hotel room Nice. For, you know, being able to stay out there. You know, in my brain, I’m like, yeah, you know, we’ll save save some money, you know, we don’t have to, you know, get a room. Mhmm. Little did I know that she had already kinda had this plan for like a setup.
Jake Schnoor: So She or the mutual friend?
Robey Reddin: Our mutual friend had a setup for us to meet. Yeah. So we go out there and we are snowboarding, skiing, because you’re a skier. Mhmm.
And I’m a snowboarder. And so Oh, no. We yeah.
Jake Schnoor: Already friction. I can sense Well,
Abby Reddin: it Well, did he did fall for me. Tripped over my skis. Oh. It went in his snowboard binding. We end up at, like, the bottom of the lift, just like in this pile.
Jake Schnoor: So So in that moment, would you say he fell for you in two ways?
Abby Reddin: No. Oh. Because because this man, it was over his head, Not any clue at all that I was like, oh my gosh. He’s so cute. Yeah.
Robey Reddin: I was completely oblivious to it all.
Abby Reddin: I can totally see
Robey Reddin: I was just there to snowboard. I was
Abby Reddin: gonna able to like And I was like, I’m there. Like You’re like, forget skiing. Yeah. Here’s this cute guy. We’re like, we ended up being like buddies for the day, like skiing and snowboarding mutual
Robey Reddin: Conveniently our mutual friend left us.
Jake Schnoor: Oh. Yeah. So Shout out to Erica. Erica. Erica Hardika.
Wow. So
Abby Reddin: And I was just like, oh, he’s so cute. This is so fun. And then, yeah, we have like one picture from that day. And I’m like, I conveniently sat next to him and our pictures hit him like stuffing a sandwich in his mouth. And I was like, great for our first picture.
Jake Schnoor: Wow.
Abby Reddin: So fun.
Robey Reddin: Wow. So yeah. So that was our first initial meet. And then our paths kinda split. My parents and my family and I, we all moved to Tennessee.
And you went to Bible College in Wyoming. And from Tennessee, I joined the Air Force from there. And fast forward, we didn’t really have much interactions between then.
Abby Reddin: Yeah. No.
Robey Reddin: I think I was on an assignment, and I saw that it was her birthday on Facebook. And I was like, oh, you know, you know, were friends. We had, you know, some decent times.
Jake Schnoor: Snowboarding saved money weekend girl. That’s
Robey Reddin: Yeah. I was like, I know their family. Like, actually, Abby’s mom and my mom were good friends, and we would hang out together and go and do stuff with her mom, my mom, and then our mutual friend’s mom.
Jake Schnoor: Okay.
Abby Reddin: Yeah. So all the moms were like, we could see this happening too.
Robey Reddin: So that there was still somewhat of that connection there. We just didn’t really talk a whole lot. Interesting. So, yeah, I was on my assignment and then I reached out to her, you know, slid into the her DMs and was like, hey, you know, what’s going on? Haven’t talked in a while.
Abby Reddin: And He used his assignment too to get my number. He was like, hey, I can’t really text this over the phone. Probably have to be like a call to like tell you what I’m up to. And I was like, I fell for it. I was like, Oh, sure, we could do that.
He’s like, Here’s my number. So, I like texted him. And then, yeah, we called. And the first time we called, we talked for three hours.
Robey Reddin: Yeah. Wow.
Abby Reddin: And I was like, I had I went to Bible college, dealt with some guys like playing with my heart. I was like, don’t wanna do this.
Jake Schnoor: Right.
Abby Reddin: I wanna spend time if it’s not intentional time. So I, like, I just straight up asked him. I was like, hey. What’s your intentions here? Like, what are you what are you
Jake Schnoor: After the first three hour phone call?
Robey Reddin: Yeah. Were getting ready to, like, end the call. I was like, hey.
Oh, by the way, quick question.
Abby Reddin: Yeah. So I asked him and he was like, hey, like, for me, it’s like talking, dating, marriage.
Jake Schnoor: Mhmm.
Abby Reddin: And I was like, I can work with that. That sounds good. Because I also, it had gone over his head that I liked him when we were skiing. So, I was like, I really wanna just make sure it’s not just like, I’m just bored. Right.
Wanted it to be intentional. So, after that, we set up like, we texted through that next week, and then we FaceTimed for three hours. And at that point, both of us were like, we know they’re the one. Like, we just know.
Robey Reddin: It was like during those conversations, we had pretty much hashed out a lot of like the big like Issues.
Big issues or like things that would come up during like like the dating conversations or like talking through that and like figuring out the other person. So a lot of that was really hashed out and we were on the same page with a lot of that. And so knowing what, like how she was raised with her family and like, like, my parents knew their parents, so I kind of knew the household that she grew up in. And where she went to school, I also knew that that was a good, I guess, resume, if you will, for lack of a better term.
Abby Reddin: We both knew what we’re like. We didn’t wanna scare the other person off with being like, hey, you wanna get married?
Robey Reddin: We knew right off the bat. We’re like, yeah.
This is gonna happen.
Abby Reddin: We’ll take a chill. We’ll, like, we’ll date and stuff. And then, yeah, it was it was really cool. He called my dad to, ask permission to date and then had flowers delivered to my house when I got off work.
Jake Schnoor: K.
Abby Reddin: Like a note saying, will you join me on an adventure? And like
Jake Schnoor: Wow. Yeah.
Abby Reddin: Date. And, yeah, that’s kinda where that happened. Then we dated for eleven months.
Robey Reddin: Mhmm. Yep.
Abby Reddin: And then got engaged January ’25. ’25. And then, he moved out to Guam in March. So we had, like, a couple months.
Robey Reddin: That’s right.
Abby Reddin: And, like, long distance the whole time from, like, Wyoming to, like Yeah.
Robey Reddin: Flying back and forth to see each other.
Abby Reddin: and Yeah. Yeah. It was crazy. So, then we, yeah, got engaged and then, yeah, got married in June ’25. So
Jake Schnoor: yeah. So cool. Yeah. That’s fun stuff. And again, the fact that your families were so close probably helped a ton in not just I mean, you don’t have to take the step of getting to know the you already know Exactly.
To those families Yeah. Which is one of the biggest pieces. With the few minutes we have left, I wanted to kind of bring it back to present day, thinking about a little bit of the job that you have on Guam, thinking about involvement at Harvest, and then just living life on Guam, what would you say has been the most encouraging thing, or the biggest lesson you think God has been teaching you since you’ve been on Guam, and specifically, while you’re at Harvest? How would you guys answer that?
Robey Reddin: Man, I would say a lot of so with us being recently married and getting on island and being so far away from family, being far away from everybody else, the church body out here has been fantastic. The community that we’ve built here, even coming out here, Abby and I were both praying about how did how did God want us to use the opportunity being on island. Yeah. And I think He really spoke to us of really what is showing people what is biblical hospitality. Yeah.
And how can we use the resources that we’ve been given to further the Gospel? Because with my job, it’s I have a really, I would say, pretty decent schedule on my normal shifts. So, being able to use the time that I do have off to encourage people throughout the week or on the weekends or however. I know we’ve had the young pros out, have been to our house for the fall retreat like the fall party. We’ve had some people from my work, we’ve all come over and we’ve done like a bonfire at my house.
And just be able to just spread just to be able to spread the Gospel with them and just share with them like, is what we’re doing. Do you want to come to church with us? Do you want to experience the community that we’ve been able to experience here on island, being so far out here from the mainland?
Jake Schnoor: Yeah, and that’s the thing. Most people that come to Guam, their family is not on Guam. And if you don’t find a community that can feel like family, it is really hard. And to a certain extent, the body of Christ can be a deeper community than your actual biological family, especially if your family is not believers.
In a practical sense, it can never supplement the role of your family or life. But Guam, because of so many people in a similar boat, and family as far, that’s been one of the biggest game changers, and why Harvest is so special for us, as well, the community. Absolutely. I can speak first hand of my family benefiting from the gift of hospitality, I think the Reddins have, and young pros, and I feel like there’s just been a number of times we’ve been at your house, but it’s been a blessing, so.
Robey Reddin: Oh, yeah. We’re truly blessed. Yeah.
Abby Reddin: Think that was our basic. It was just, yeah, practicing hospitality and what that would look like for us as a married couple has been really, really cool. And then with the Young Pros Retreat, just like, was a huge encouragement to us to hear from Pastor Brian Lenartz and how he used the gift of hospitality, it just really encouraged our hearts to kind of keep doing what we’ve been doing and maybe even do it on a little bit of a bigger scale. And that’s been kind of one of our, like, biggest encouragements from us serving in hospitality and then just being encouraged to continue in that.
Robey Reddin: Yeah. And then seeing how God has opened the doors for that. Because like Yeah. Like I said, we were praying before we even got on island, and it it lined up perfectly like the realtor I was working with. Just how God orchestrated that together to be Sure.
To be able to get the place that we have, which is perfect for it.
Jake Schnoor: Oh yeah, it’s close to work for you. Yeah. Sadly, it’s far from us, but far on Guam. During the rights? Yeah, feels like an hour stateside.
Yeah, and again, it’s been a blessing. Well, thank you guys for taking the time. We could go on, you know, we’ve been talking for hours before, but we could go a long time on any one of these things, but thank you so much for joining us on Harvest Time.
Robey Reddin: Absolutely. Thanks for having us.
Abby Reddin: Thanks for having us.
Chris Harper: And thank you for listening to Harvest Time. Of course, at this point in the program, we always wanna personally invite you again to services at Harvest Baptist Church. There are two on Sunday, 08:45AM and 10:45AM. Remember, have Japanese and Korean translation during the 10:45AM service. We also bring you that service live here on 88.1 FM and khmg.org.
Hope to see you this Sunday. Thanks again for listening to Harvest Time.